A NIGHT THAT WILL LIVE IN MANY MEMORIES

What a count it was for the groganmedal. It went right down to the last round of the season. 2 worthywinners of the prestigious award though. In the games I saw ofsouthport play. Matty Payne was clearly their best players and theworry for him was would his team win enough games for him to getenough votes to win it. Well he polled in a lot of games where histeam was beaten and shows the class of the player of the competition.The other player the shared the award was Cameron Ilet. He has been astandout player in the qafl for the last 3 years and this year he wasfinally rewarded with his fine exploits. The vote count was close allnight. There was 4 clear cut contender vying for the medal, but only3 were eligible to win it. Zorko was up on top of the leader boardall night but finished a vote behind Ilet and Payne. But the highestvote getter was Micah Buchanan, he finished the night on 25 votes 2ahead of the winners. It was a shock to all I am suspecting. But hehas had such a stellar season and it's not surprising he would be uptheir with the winner. In a 6 round period he polled 14 votes andthat's where excelled. He got his last best on ground vote on a dayhe got knocked out and spent the night in hospital. He is a gunfootballer and aspley have to everything to keep him. The ressiesmedal was won by Peter Labi of Mt Gravatt. The rising star award waswon by RossTungatalum a good young forwardfor the thunder. There wasn't many surprises in the team of the yearwith Cameron Ilet named captain

B:Nathan Kinch (Morningside), Gavin Grose (Mt Gravatt), Caleb Brown(Morningside)  
HB: Robbie Copeland (Aspley),Shaun Tapp (NT Thunder), Steve Wrigley (Labrador) 
C:Kallen Geary (Broadbeach), Cameron Ilett (NT Thunder - capt), RyanDavey (Labrador)
HF:  Albert Proud (Mt Gravatt), Kent Abey(Morningside), Micah Buchanan (Aspley)
F: Ross Tungatalum(NT Thunder), Darren Ewing (NT Thunder), Chris Smith (Mt Gravatt)
R:Kenrick Tyrrell (NT Thunder), Matthew Payne (Southport), Dayne Zorko(Broadbeach)
INT: Paul Shelton (Morningside), Matt Jones(Labrador), Amon Buchanan (Brisbane Lions), Jacob Gilbee (Gold CoastSuns), Scott Clouston (Redland).

The qld team of the year provedagain why everyone thinks the whole thing is a farce and thereshouldn't be a team picked. Again I have to question what games arethese guys watching. It's time they dump this team, no other leaguesdoe a team thing every year like this why the hell should we